Austin short-term rental data report: pricing an oversupplied city
Austin’s short-term rental story is supply. Listings multiplied faster than guests did, and the result is a market where averages hide a brutal spread between well-positioned listings and everyone else. Our desk’s data below shows a market with shallow seasonality, a spring peak built on the festival calendar, and persistent discounting under the sticker prices.
Figures: the UpRev revenue desk’s August 2026 pull, aggregated daily across the market’s competitive set, twelve complete months ending July 2026. Refreshed quarterly.
Unlike the lake and mountain markets we track, Austin’s occupancy band is comparatively narrow across the year: the spread between the strongest and weakest months is modest, with the peak landing in early spring on the festival surge rather than in summer. What the monthly averages smooth over is that the year’s profit concentrates into specific event weeks, and capturing those depends on being priced into them well before the booking window compresses.
The market books well under its listed prices, and the top quartile asks a very large premium over the median. Read together, that is the signature of oversupply: too many listings chasing the same guests, most priced on hope, a minority priced on evidence. Our published Austin client case study shows what the evidence-priced side of that divide looks like against these same market conditions.
The numbers
| Size | Peak occupancy | Trough occupancy | Weekend premium | Top-quartile ask vs median | Booked vs listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1BR | 70.6% (March 2026) | 53.1% (December 2025) | 16% | +34% | -13% |
| 2BR | 70% (March 2026) | 55.9% (January 2026) | 18% | +41% | -15% |
| 3BR | 67.2% (July 2026) | 45% (January 2026) | 19% | +46% | -16% |
| 4BR | 62.4% (March 2026) | 43.8% (January 2026) | 27% | +56% | -15% |
| 5BR | 63.8% (July 2026) | 41% (January 2026) | 31% | +57% | -18% |
| Month | Occupancy | Occupancy, year prior | 25th pct listed | Median listed | 75th pct listed | Median booked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | 59.4% | 57.3% | $113 | $152 | $212 | $124 |
| September 2025 | 59.5% | 56.1% | $113 | $157 | $221 | $132 |
| October 2025 | 65.3% | 68.5% | $149 | $211 | $302 | $193 |
| November 2025 | 64.8% | 64.1% | $121 | $166 | $232 | $147 |
| December 2025 | 57.8% | 58.5% | $106 | $147 | $207 | $121 |
| January 2026 | 55.9% | 55.3% | $101 | $139 | $198 | $111 |
| February 2026 | 64.6% | 65.6% | $110 | $155 | $220 | $130 |
| March 2026 | 70% | 72.3% | $140 | $199 | $279 | $174 |
| April 2026 | 67.7% | 66.5% | $119 | $168 | $236 | $145 |
| May 2026 | 68.2% | 63.2% | $118 | $163 | $227 | $141 |
| June 2026 | 67.3% | 61.6% | $112 | $157 | $219 | $131 |
| July 2026 | 69.6% | 61.6% | $111 | $154 | $216 | $127 |
| Month | Occupancy | Occupancy, year prior | 25th pct listed | Median listed | 75th pct listed | Median booked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2025 | 55.8% | 57.1% | $149 | $198 | $288 | $160 |
| September 2025 | 55.7% | 53.2% | $145 | $196 | $286 | $162 |
| October 2025 | 62.1% | 63.2% | $189 | $268 | $396 | $238 |
| November 2025 | 58.1% | 57.6% | $159 | $216 | $308 | $185 |
| December 2025 | 51.6% | 53.2% | $143 | $199 | $286 | $164 |
| January 2026 | 45% | 43.9% | $131 | $190 | $278 | $154 |
| February 2026 | 56.5% | 56.1% | $144 | $205 | $298 | $167 |
| March 2026 | 64.4% | 68.2% | $181 | $258 | $381 | $220 |
| April 2026 | 61.8% | 63.1% | $159 | $225 | $325 | $194 |
| May 2026 | 63.9% | 60.3% | $159 | $225 | $323 | $193 |
| June 2026 | 62.9% | 56.6% | $150 | $212 | $308 | $175 |
| July 2026 | 67.2% | 60.3% | $151 | $211 | $311 | $176 |
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